📜 Post with us on Reddit
📝 Create a new article
🏭 Create a company page
🇬🇧 - in English
🇫🇷 - en Français (FR)
🇵🇹 - em Português (PT)
🇩🇪 - in Deutsch (DE)
🇯🇵 - 日本語で (JA)
Sponsored articles

You can edit almost every page by Creating an account. Otherwise, see the FAQ.

List of Iranian dynasties and countries

From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki


The following is an incomplete list of historical dynasties which were at some time Iranian or the country they ruled were Iranian-speaking and of modern countries with significant Iranian populations or with an official Iranian language. The Iranians consist of Pashtuns, Persians, Medes, Scythians, Kurds, Bactrians, Tajiks, Baloch, Parthians, Sogdians, Sarmatians, Alans, Ossetians, along with others.

Current states[edit]

Independent states[edit]

Federal subjects of Russia[edit]

Autonomous regions[edit]

Historical confederation of tribes and Iranian dynasties[edit]

Direct Iranian dynasties[edit]

Sinicized Iranian dynasties[edit]

Turkified Iranian dynasties[edit]

Hellenized Iranian dynasties[edit]

Former and defunct Iranian governments[edit]

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Kamrava, Mehran (2022). A Dynastic History of Iran: From the Qajars to the Pahlavis. Cambridge University Press.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Allsen, Thomas T. (2011). The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812201079 Search this book on .. p. 37.; "The Orontid dynasty of Armenia (ca. 401-200), whose ruling house was of Achaemenid origin, originally administered the territory as satraps and later as independent kings."
  2. ↑ Sartre, Maurice (2005). The Middle East Under Rome. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674016835 Search this book on .. p. 23; "The Commagene kings claimed to be descended from the Orontids, a powerful Iranian family that had ruled the area during the Achaemenid period. They were related to the Achaemenids who had built a kingdom (...)".
  3. ↑ Babaie, Sussan.; Grigor, Talinn. Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis. (2015). I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1848857513 Search this book on .. p. 80.; "Iranian culture deeply influenced Armenia, and Iranian dynasties ruled Armenia during several important periods, including the Orontids (c. sixth century – c. early second century BCE) and Arsacids (54–428 CE)."
  4. ↑ TIGRAN II. Garsoian, N. (2005). Encyclopaedia Iranica. quote = "Tigran (Tigranes) II was the most distinguished member of the so-called Artašēsid/Artaxiad dynasty, which has now been identified as a branch of the earlier Eruandid [Orontid] dynasty of Iranian origin attested as ruling in Armenia from at least the 5th century B.C.E."
  5. ↑ Cyril Toumanoff (Georgetown University Press, 1963; Studies in Christian Caucasian History, part III. The Orontids of Armenia. ). p. 278; "The eponym's praeonemen Orontes is as Iranian as the dynasty itself, derived from the Avestan auraund/aurvant ('mighty,' 'hero') and related to the Pehlevi arvand."
  6. ↑ McGing 2012, p. 151; Weiskopf 1990, pp. 780–786; Shahbazi 1986, pp. 410–411; Boyce & Grenet 1991, pp. 266–267, 281; Mørkholm 1991, p. 96.
  7. ↑ Bosworth, C.E., ed. (1995). Encyclopedia of Islam (New ed.). Leiden [u.a.]: Brill [u.a.] p. 638. ISBN 90-04-09834-8 Search this book on ..
  8. ↑ Richard Nelson Frye, William Bayne Fisher, John Andrew Boyle, eds., The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6 Search this book on ., p. 160, p. 374.
  9. ↑ Frye, R. N.; Fisher, William Bayne; Frye, Richard Nelson; Avery, Peter; Gershevitch, Ilya; Boyle, John Andrew; Yarshater, Ehsan; Jackson, Peter (26 June 1975). The Cambridge History of Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6 Search this book on ..
  10. ↑ Bosworth, C.E. (2004). The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual. Edinburgh University Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-7486-2137-8 Search this book on .. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  11. ↑ The Cambridge History of Iran, By Richard Nelson Frye, William Bayne Fisher, John Andrew Boyle, Published by Cambridge University Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6 Search this book on .; p. 121.
  12. ↑ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, Columbia University, 1996. pg 148
  13. ↑ Bosworth, C. E. "ĀL-E ELYĀS". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  14. ↑ Busse 1975, pp. 251–252; Bürgel & Mottahedeh 1988, pp. 265–269; Nagel 1990, pp. 578–586; Bosworth 1996, pp. 154–155; Kennedy 2004, p. 211; Karsh 2007, pp. 60; Cahen 1960, pp. 1350–1357; Felix & Madelung 1995, pp. 342–347.
  15. ↑ Gunter 2010, p. 117.
  16. ↑ Peacock 2011.
  17. ↑ Peacock 2017.
  18. ↑ Aḥmad, K. M. (1985). "ʿANNAZIDS". Iranica Online. II.
  19. ↑ Bosworth 1984b, pp. 762–764.
  20. ↑ Herzig & Stewart 2014, p. 65; Potts 2014, p. 180; Bosworth 1994, pp. 773–774.
  21. ↑ Han, Şeref (Çev. İbrahim Sunkur) (2016). Şerefname. Van: Sîtav. p. 204. ISBN 978-605-66520-1-1 Search this book on ..
  22. ↑ C. E. Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, (Columbia University Press, 1996), p. 205, ISBN 0-231-10714-5 Search this book on ..
  23. ↑ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, Columbia University, 1996. Excerpt 1 pp 209: "The Atabegs of Yazd" (1141-1297)" Excerpt 2: "From the names of the earlier members at least, it seems they were ethnically Persian, but, like the Hazaraspids, they adopted the Turkish title of Atabeg"
  24. ↑ Findlay, Ronald; O'Rourke, Kevin H. (2009-08-10). Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-3188-3 Search this book on ..
  25. ↑ Black, Antony (2011-07-31). History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-4756-9 Search this book on ..
  26. ↑ (2002). Atlas of World History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-521921-0 Search this book on ..
  27. ↑ Castellino, Joshua; Cavanaugh, Kathleen A. (25 April 2013). Minority Rights in the Middle East. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-166887-6 Search this book on ..
  28. ↑ McClary, Richard P. (2017-07-28). Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220: The Patronage of Sultans. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-1748-8 Search this book on ..
  29. ↑ Riley-Smith, Jonathan (2002). The Oxford History of the Crusades. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280312-2 Search this book on ..
  30. ↑ Ruggles, D. Fairchild (17 April 2020). Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-087321-9 Search this book on ..
  31. ↑ Chase, Kenneth; Chase, Kenneth Warren (7 July 2003). Firearms: A Global History to 1700. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82274-9 Search this book on ..
  32. ↑ Ruthven, Lecturer in Comparative Religion Malise; Ruthven, Malise; Nanji, Azim (2004). Historical Atlas of Islam. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01385-8 Search this book on ..
  33. ↑ Eppel 2018, p. 38.
  34. ↑ Maisel 2018, p. 131.
  35. ↑ Bosworth 1984, pp. 742–743.
  36. ↑ Matthee, Rudi. (2005). The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900. Princeton University Press. p. 18; "The Safavids, as Iranians of Kurdish ancestry and of nontribal background (...)". Savory, Roger. (2008). "EBN BAZZĀZ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 1. p. 8. "This official version contains textual changes designed to obscure the Kurdish origins of the Safavid family and to vindicate their claim to descent from the Imams." Amoretti, Biancamaria Scarcia; Matthee, Rudi. (2009). "Ṣafavid Dynasty". In Esposito, John L. (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. Oxford University Press. "Of Kurdish ancestry, the Ṣafavids started as a Sunnī mystical order (...)". Stuart Cary Welch, A King's Book of Kings: The Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp, p11 ; "Although the Safavids spoke Turkish, they were probably of Kurdish origin...". John R. Perry, New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society, ed. Colin P. Mitchell, p86 ; "The Safavid dynasty, in all likelihood of Kurdish origin....". Algar, Hamid. (2006). "IRAN ix. RELIGIONS IN IRAN (2) Islam in Iran (2.3) Shiʿism in Iran Since the Safavids" Encyclopedia Iranica Vol. XIII, Fasc. 5, pp. 456-474 "The Safavids originated as a hereditary lineage of Sufi shaikhs centered on Ardabil, Shafeʿite in school and probably Kurdish in origin."
  37. ↑ Safavid Iran at Encyclopædia Iranica, "The origins of the Safavids are clouded in obscurity. They may have been of Kurdish origin (see R. Savory, Iran Under the Safavids, 1980, p. 2; R. Matthee, "Safavid Dynasty" at iranica.com), but for all practical purposes they were Turkish-speaking and Turkified."
  38. ↑ Helen Chapin Metz, ed., Iran, a Country study. 1989. University of Michigan, p. 313.
  39. ↑ Emory C. Bogle. Islam: Origin and Belief. University of Texas Press. 1989, p. 145.
  40. ↑ Andrew J. Newman, Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire, IB Tauris (March 30, 2006).
  41. ↑ Stanford Jay Shaw. History of the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge University Press. 1977, p. 77.
  42. ↑ Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980), p. 3.
  43. ↑ Savory, R. M. (1977), Lambton, Ann K. S.; Lewis, Bernard; Holt, P. M. (eds.), "Safavid Persia", The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume undefined: The Central Islamic Lands from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War, The Cambridge History of Islam, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 394–429, ISBN 978-0-521-29135-4 Search this book on ..
  44. ↑ SAFAVID DYNASTY - Encyclopaedia Iranica, Rudi Matthee (2008)
  45. ↑ Dehqan & Genç 2019.
  46. ↑ Oberling, P. "BANĪ ARDALĀN". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2011-09-21.
  47. ↑ Behn 1988.
  48. ↑ Tapper 2010.
  49. ↑ Benn, Charles (2002). China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty. Oxford University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-517665-0 Search this book on ..
  50. ↑ Ebrey, Patricia; Walthall, Anne; Palais, James (2009). East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-547-00539-3 Search this book on ..
  51. ↑ Oberling 1995.
  52. ↑ Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 25. 272.
  53. ↑ The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus, by B. C. McGing, p. 11
  54. ↑ Children of Achilles: The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the Days of Troy, by John Freely, p. 69–70
  55. ↑ McGing, Brian (2004). "Pontus". Encyclopaedia Iranica, online edition. Retrieved 2019-11-14.


This article "List of Iranian dynasties and countries" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:List of Iranian dynasties and countries. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.


Retrieved from "https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=List_of_Iranian_dynasties_and_countries&oldid=3405955"
License CC BY-SA 3.0
Powered by MediaWiki
Powered by Semantic MediaWiki